Jo Worthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5971869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Worthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Worthy |
| SIGNATURE | WORTHY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3998-1665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Critical Evaluation of Dyslexia Information on the Internet
The internet is a common source of information for parents, educators, and the general public. However, researchers who analyze the quality of internet sources have found they often contain inaccurate and misleading information. Here, we present an analysis of dyslexia on the internet. Employing disability studies in education (DSE), disability critical race studies (DisCrit), and Bakhtin’s construct of ideological becoming, we examined the credi…
What If We Were Committed to Giving Every Individual the Servicesand Opportunities They Need?” Teacher Educators’ Understandings,Perspectives, and Practices Surrounding Dyslexia
Educators and researchers from a range of fields have devoted their careers to studying how reading develops and how to support students who find reading challenging. Some children struggle specifically with learning to decode print, the central issue in what is referred to as dyslexia.However, research has failed to identify unique characteristics or patterns that set apart students identified as dyslexic from other readers with decoding challen…
Wow, I get to choose now!” Bilingualism and biliteracy development from childhood to young adulthood
Much research has focused on the reasons and mechanisms for immigrant language loss. However, there is a scarcity of research about influences on language maintenance over time, and much of this work employs survey data. With the current study, we aim to contribute to this body of research with a qualitative study of a bilingual individual, Esperanza Sada (a self-selected pseudonym), and her language and literacy development, beginning in late el…
Portraits of Practice
This interpretive study provides a cross-case analysis of the literacy instruction of two first-grade teachers, with a particular focus on their grouping practices. One key finding was the way in which these teachers drew upon a district-advocated approach for instruction—an approach to guided reading articulated by Fountas and Pinnell (1996) in which students are instructed in small groups based on reading level—as a resource for their sense-mak…
Spaces for Dynamic Bilingualism in Read-Aloud Discussions
A substantial body of research has collectively concluded that encouraging students to draw flexibly on multiple aspects of their linguistic repertoires is positively associated with developing bilingualism, metalinguistic awareness, and academic skills. However, most bilingual education programs—including transitional and dual-language—limit, discourage, and/or stigmatize such practices. This study examines literature discussion in a fifth-grade…
Only the Names Have Been Changed
Middle School Choices for Bilingual Latino/A Youth
Como si le Falta un Brazo
This study examined the perspectives of Latino/a immigrant parents about the place of English in their lives. The parents described how they had come to the United States with intentions of learning English, but various obstacles made it an overwhelming challenge. The author questions whether, despite rhetoric to the contrary, financially struggling immigrants may not be meant to learn English because they play a role in the nation's economy that…
Mi Hija Vale Dos Personas ”
This paper presents the voices of 16 Latino immigrant parents whose children were upper elementary students in a bilingual education class in the southwestern United States. In interviews that focused on their children's language learning and usage, the parents spoke of a commitment to a better life for their children. All believed that English proficiency and bilingualism were keys to social and economic advancement and that speaking Spanish rep…
It didn't have to be so hard’
This article presents a case study of Mark Westin from his first to his fifth year of teaching fifth grade in an urban public school. Despite extreme management challenges and limited administrative support in a school with unusually high turnover, Mark persevered through his difficult novice years to become among the most respected and dedicated teachers in his school. Through classroom observations and interviews with Mark, I first present a sn…
Fifth-Grade Bilingual Students and Precursors to “Subtractive Schooling”
In this paper, we present a yearlong ethnographic study of fifth-grade students who are either immigrants or the children of immigrants from Latin American countries, predominantly Mexico. We examined how they used their two languages at home, in the community, and at school. We also examined their perspectives, and those of their parents and teacher, about bilingualism and their awareness of barriers they may face in the future. Interviews and o…
What Johnny Likes to Read Is Hard to Find in School
S Research about the importance of interest in learning suggests that students who have access to materials of interest are more likely to read and thus to improve their reading achievement and attitudes. This study examined the reading preferences and access to reading materials of sixth‐grade students from three middle schools in a large ethnically and economically diverse southwestern U.S. school district. Preference surveys and open‐ended que…
Giving a Text Voice Can Improve Students' Understanding
Les AA. ont essaye de produire des textes susceptibles de motiver les eleves et d'ameliorer leur comprehension du contenu principal. Des caracteristiques susceptibles de motiver les eleves ont ete retenues, parmi elles donner au texte une voix. Les AA. presentent les resultats obtenus suite a une serie de tests realises aupres d'enfants de quatrieme
Mi Hija Vale Dos Personas ”
This paper presents the voices of 16 Latino immigrant parents whose children were upper elementary students in a bilingual education class in the southwestern United States. In interviews that focused on their children's language learning and usage, the parents spoke of a commitment to a better life for their children. All believed that English proficiency and bilingualism were keys to social and economic advancement and that speaking Spanish rep…
What Johnny Likes to Read Is Hard to Find in School
S Research about the importance of interest in learning suggests that students who have access to materials of interest are more likely to read and thus to improve their reading achievement and attitudes. This study examined the reading preferences and access to reading materials of sixth‐grade students from three middle schools in a large ethnically and economically diverse southwestern U.S. school district. Preference surveys and open‐ended que…
Giving a Text Voice Can Improve Students' Understanding
Les AA. ont essaye de produire des textes susceptibles de motiver les eleves et d'ameliorer leur comprehension du contenu principal. Des caracteristiques susceptibles de motiver les eleves ont ete retenues, parmi elles donner au texte une voix. Les AA. presentent les resultats obtenus suite a une serie de tests realises aupres d'enfants de quatrieme
It didn't have to be so hard’
This article presents a case study of Mark Westin from his first to his fifth year of teaching fifth grade in an urban public school. Despite extreme management challenges and limited administrative support in a school with unusually high turnover, Mark persevered through his difficult novice years to become among the most respected and dedicated teachers in his school. Through classroom observations and interviews with Mark, I first present a sn…
Como si le Falta un Brazo
This study examined the perspectives of Latino/a immigrant parents about the place of English in their lives. The parents described how they had come to the United States with intentions of learning English, but various obstacles made it an overwhelming challenge. The author questions whether, despite rhetoric to the contrary, financially struggling immigrants may not be meant to learn English because they play a role in the nation's economy that…
Fifth-Grade Bilingual Students and Precursors to “Subtractive Schooling”
In this paper, we present a yearlong ethnographic study of fifth-grade students who are either immigrants or the children of immigrants from Latin American countries, predominantly Mexico. We examined how they used their two languages at home, in the community, and at school. We also examined their perspectives, and those of their parents and teacher, about bilingualism and their awareness of barriers they may face in the future. Interviews and o…
Spaces for Dynamic Bilingualism in Read-Aloud Discussions
A substantial body of research has collectively concluded that encouraging students to draw flexibly on multiple aspects of their linguistic repertoires is positively associated with developing bilingualism, metalinguistic awareness, and academic skills. However, most bilingual education programs—including transitional and dual-language—limit, discourage, and/or stigmatize such practices. This study examines literature discussion in a fifth-grade…
Only the Names Have Been Changed
Wow, I get to choose now!” Bilingualism and biliteracy development from childhood to young adulthood
Much research has focused on the reasons and mechanisms for immigrant language loss. However, there is a scarcity of research about influences on language maintenance over time, and much of this work employs survey data. With the current study, we aim to contribute to this body of research with a qualitative study of a bilingual individual, Esperanza Sada (a self-selected pseudonym), and her language and literacy development, beginning in late el…
Middle School Choices for Bilingual Latino/A Youth
Giving a Text Voice Can Improve Students' Understanding
Les AA. ont essaye de produire des textes susceptibles de motiver les eleves et d'ameliorer leur comprehension du contenu principal. Des caracteristiques susceptibles de motiver les eleves ont ete retenues, parmi elles donner au texte une voix. Les AA. presentent les resultats obtenus suite a une serie de tests realises aupres d'enfants de quatrieme
What Johnny Likes to Read Is Hard to Find in School
S Research about the importance of interest in learning suggests that students who have access to materials of interest are more likely to read and thus to improve their reading achievement and attitudes. This study examined the reading preferences and access to reading materials of sixth‐grade students from three middle schools in a large ethnically and economically diverse southwestern U.S. school district. Preference surveys and open‐ended que…
Fifth-Grade Bilingual Students and Precursors to “Subtractive Schooling”
In this paper, we present a yearlong ethnographic study of fifth-grade students who are either immigrants or the children of immigrants from Latin American countries, predominantly Mexico. We examined how they used their two languages at home, in the community, and at school. We also examined their perspectives, and those of their parents and teacher, about bilingualism and their awareness of barriers they may face in the future. Interviews and o…
It didn't have to be so hard’
This article presents a case study of Mark Westin from his first to his fifth year of teaching fifth grade in an urban public school. Despite extreme management challenges and limited administrative support in a school with unusually high turnover, Mark persevered through his difficult novice years to become among the most respected and dedicated teachers in his school. Through classroom observations and interviews with Mark, I first present a sn…
Como si le Falta un Brazo
This study examined the perspectives of Latino/a immigrant parents about the place of English in their lives. The parents described how they had come to the United States with intentions of learning English, but various obstacles made it an overwhelming challenge. The author questions whether, despite rhetoric to the contrary, financially struggling immigrants may not be meant to learn English because they play a role in the nation's economy that…
Mi Hija Vale Dos Personas ”
This paper presents the voices of 16 Latino immigrant parents whose children were upper elementary students in a bilingual education class in the southwestern United States. In interviews that focused on their children's language learning and usage, the parents spoke of a commitment to a better life for their children. All believed that English proficiency and bilingualism were keys to social and economic advancement and that speaking Spanish rep…
Middle School Choices for Bilingual Latino/A Youth
Only the Names Have Been Changed
Portraits of Practice
This interpretive study provides a cross-case analysis of the literacy instruction of two first-grade teachers, with a particular focus on their grouping practices. One key finding was the way in which these teachers drew upon a district-advocated approach for instruction—an approach to guided reading articulated by Fountas and Pinnell (1996) in which students are instructed in small groups based on reading level—as a resource for their sense-mak…
Spaces for Dynamic Bilingualism in Read-Aloud Discussions
A substantial body of research has collectively concluded that encouraging students to draw flexibly on multiple aspects of their linguistic repertoires is positively associated with developing bilingualism, metalinguistic awareness, and academic skills. However, most bilingual education programs—including transitional and dual-language—limit, discourage, and/or stigmatize such practices. This study examines literature discussion in a fifth-grade…
Wow, I get to choose now!” Bilingualism and biliteracy development from childhood to young adulthood
Much research has focused on the reasons and mechanisms for immigrant language loss. However, there is a scarcity of research about influences on language maintenance over time, and much of this work employs survey data. With the current study, we aim to contribute to this body of research with a qualitative study of a bilingual individual, Esperanza Sada (a self-selected pseudonym), and her language and literacy development, beginning in late el…
What If We Were Committed to Giving Every Individual the Servicesand Opportunities They Need?” Teacher Educators’ Understandings,Perspectives, and Practices Surrounding Dyslexia
Educators and researchers from a range of fields have devoted their careers to studying how reading develops and how to support students who find reading challenging. Some children struggle specifically with learning to decode print, the central issue in what is referred to as dyslexia.However, research has failed to identify unique characteristics or patterns that set apart students identified as dyslexic from other readers with decoding challen…
A Critical Evaluation of Dyslexia Information on the Internet
The internet is a common source of information for parents, educators, and the general public. However, researchers who analyze the quality of internet sources have found they often contain inaccurate and misleading information. Here, we present an analysis of dyslexia on the internet. Employing disability studies in education (DSE), disability critical race studies (DisCrit), and Bakhtin’s construct of ideological becoming, we examined the credi…
Psychology (13 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · Mathematics education (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (5 works) · Bilingual education (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works)